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CBN is not CBS and ACLJ is not ACLU. CBN stands for the Christian Broadcast Network and ACLJ stands for the American Center for Law and Justice.

I did a Google search for FBI Director James Comey, and at the top of the page, was the headline, “ACLJ accuses FBI Director of Obstruction of Justice in Clinton Email Case.” This was posted by the CBN organization.

I found the information I really wanted by typing in “James Comey” Wikipedia.

The American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) is a politically conservative, Christian-based social activism organization in the United States founded by Pat Robertson. The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) is an American Christian-oriented religious television network and production company founded by televangelist Pat Robertson.

ACLJ is all about right wing politics.

ACLJ

And Pat Robinson is at the head of all this. He gets regular messages from God including the one that the world was going to end in 1982: His latest message is as follows:

“God came to me in a dream last night and showed me the future,” said Robertson. “He took me to heaven and I saw Donald Trump seated at the right hand of our Lord.”

Of course, all the evangelicals were hoping for Ted Cruz or Dr. Ben Carson, but Trump is an adequate replacement (obviously the bar has been lowered).

There’s going to be a lot of stuff posted on the Internet and from religious broadcast stations, particularly over the radio, that are loaded with false accusations. There is not one iota of evidence that the FBI did anything but a non-partisan and thorough investigation into the email scandal.

The bottom line is that Republicans are unhappy because the thorough investigation did not show any laws were broken. If Comey had recommended criminal charges, Republicans would have been ecstatic – even if this was unjustified by the evidence. Hillary would be forced to end her campaign, and it would be a closer contest of Sanders v. Trump.

But Republicans couldn’t find a more unlikely target than Comey, who served both Republican and Democrat presidents, a registered Republican for most of his life (he’s registered as an independent now) and was easily confirmed as Director of the FBI in 2013.